Biggs Corran and Wes win Utah

By Crackin Dirty, in X-Wing

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Are they compensating you for this exclusive interview?

Yes, I imagine I will get a Pepsi from Tyson and hopefully some gummy worms from Asa.

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What happens when you run into a crackshot swarm?

This kills Dan.

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Hello Dhars, as a seasoned rebel player I fell in love with your build since it seems one of the few which has a shot in a PalpAces and Jumpmasters meta and I was planning to bring it at some events.

Unfortunatly I have little time to proper test it so I'm going to ask you for generic approach advice.

How do you fly against PalpAces in particular? Excluding obvious occasions like tokenless aces or range 1 target lock Corran, do you usually go after the Lamda first or do you focus to aces right from the start?

Stressbot Wes & Corran are two of the few ships that can succcessfully take down a full tokens and Palpa protected ace, but I'm not sure this is the best approach.

Thanks in advance for your answer!

I don't really go in with a plan with palp aces because there are types of palp aces players. Ones that keep the shuttle back and the ones that go full out combat and block mode with it. So the game state is very important for my decision, but my rule of thumb is, if I feel confident I can block an ace, I'll go for it, otherwise I just harass them so they have to play defensively and take pot shots at the shuttle. I don't know if that makes sense unfortunately, but I hope it helps.

Dhars, thank you very much for the insight and the tips: I brought your list to the Kashyyk Open and it was a blast! I reached top 8 before losing to the awesome Scott Reed's triple jumpmaster (after that I had beated him in the swiss: Corran Horn is a god).

Seriously, your list is crazy good. My only regret is that I came to the SoS with just an handful of games with it under my belly and 0 wave 8 prior tournament experience, since it was officially released in Italy only a couple of days before the SoS.

Biggs buys enough time for the list to destroy the most problematic opponent's ship in 1 or 2 turns, Wes is a threat that your opponet can't ignore because stealing tokens and stressing is awesome and Corran Horn is love.

Your list is nuts, strong and very funny to play